Improvement in wash-boards



AMATRIKL Wash-Boards.

PatemedApri|28,1874.

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UNITED j STATES PATEII'I OFFICE.

ANNA IIRIKE, or IroWLnn, ILLINOIS,

aMPRovEMENT IN wAsH-BoARDs.'

Speeiea/t'ion forming pari of Letters Patent No. 150,315, dated April28, 1874; appli( atie-n Sie March 27, 1874.

To all whom it may ccncen: 1

Be it known4 that l', A'INNAFEIKE, 'of FowleI-,Adams county, illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wash-BoardS, of Which thefollowing is a specification, refereuce being had to the accompanyingdraw i The invention relates t0 an improved Washboard; and eonsists'of aboard properly supported, and provided on opposite sides with washing orrubbing surfaces composed Ofcom, rugations of different sizes, thetop-0f the board being supplied with a tilting angleplate, so that aseither side of the wash-board is used, a broad surface is presentedtosupport the body of the operator, ad-prevent'the Waterifrom wetting theperson. The object of the invention is to provideadouble wash-board,either side of which can be used with equal comfort.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embracing the elements of theinvention. Fig. 2

is a vertical central section of the same.

A in the accompanying drawings is a board, one side of which is suppliedwith the corrugated plate B, the other-with the corrugated plate D, thesizes of the corrugations' diierin g asdesired, to the nd that coarse ortine material can be Washed on the same board.

Secured to the board A are the cleats E,the sides of which proj ectproperly above the cor- Jrugated surfaces, while their'lower ends formthe support for the'board, their upperprl"jecting above the upper edgeof the board, and

prov-i ed with bearings to receive the journals a.. on the ends of thelower corne's of the square shaft F, the upper surfaces of whichv aresecured to the ngle-plate-H in such manner that when one side of theplate is at right F below the plate shall be substantiallyin the Asainevertical plane as the adjacent surface of the board A. lThe plate IIconsists of two .pieces ef material of proper dimensions securedtogether atright angles, the 'shaft 'F attached y to the re-entrantangle. Thus, be cithersidc of the-board used, it v'isonly necessary totilt the plate II toward the opposite side, which .affords a broadsurface to Lsupport the person, and also protects the clothes' of ltheoperator from being dampened or. soiled.

It is'obvious-that the tilting piece 'H can be made with its side piecesat a greater or less ngle than a right angle, and still ei'ect theobject of the invention; also, that it caube used with good .resultsupon any wash-board havin g a double face, whether thecorrugations uponthe. faces are of like size or not.

What I claim as my'invcntion, a1ul desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A1. The tilting piece II, the sides of which are placed at or about at aright angle to each other, and mounted upon the rock-shaft F,substantially as shown and described.

2. A tilting piece, in combination with a double-faced wasl'i-board,substantially as de scribed and set forth.

In testimony that I'claini the foregoing iniprovemcnt in wash-boards, asabove described, I have hereunto s ct my hand and seal this 23d dayoflliarch, 1ST 4. w

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